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0. s. PLUM M33; ORNAMENTAL CARD BOARD- No. 289,444; Patented Dec. 4, 1.883.

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UNITED STATES CHARLES s. PLUMMER, or NEWARK,

NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO EVANS,

PLUMMER & (30., OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

ORNAMENTAL CARD-BOARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 289,444, dated December 4, 1883.

Application filed November 2, 1833. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES S. PLUMMER, of Newark, in the county of Essex, State of New Jersey, am the inventor of a new article of manufacture, the same being Card-Board Ornamented and Used for Easter, Birthday,

and Dance Cards, &c., of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the drawings forming part thereof.

Figure 1 is a face view of a card ornamented as hereinafter described, Fig. 2, a cross-section of Fig. 1 on line 00' w,- and Fig. 3 is a face view of a card differently ornamented than that shown in Fig. 1.

My invention consists in ornamenting card or stiff pasteboard by the use of satin, silk, plush, velvet 8m, puffed, shirred, or plain, which is applied under the card-board from the under side and raised through apertures or prepared openings made in said card-board by artificial filling or other means, which may or may not project beyond the upper surface or face of the card-board.

In manufacturing my invention, I take card or stiff pasteboard and cut out through it the desired designs which are to be filled with the silk, &c., as shown in Fig. 1 at B, Fig. 2 at A, (section of B, Fig. 1,) and in Fig. 8 at 0.

These apertures may be of various shapes such as an egg, heart, or other symbols, when ornaments of that class are desired. When the article is an envelope containing weddingcards, order of dance, supper invitations, 8rd, then the edge of the card having a small margin (shown in Fig. 3) on the outside is cut away at I). Now, from the under side plain, shirred, or fluted ribbon is placed, and then a back piece, 0, is pasted over the under side of the board,which holds the ribbon, silk, or velvet from being displaced. When used, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, to indicate some peculiar shape, as in the drawings anegg, the

aperture is cut out of the card, and the silk, satin, or velvet is pushed up through the aperture. Its edges, as seen at d, are confined to the inner side of said aperture. silk or satin, &c., is placed any artificial filling material that is light and of a pliable material,when the egg is designed to act as a pincushion, 850.

In place of the artificial filling, various de' signs made of light metal or other hard substance, but light in Weight, may be made, or cast, or molded, and with the silk as an outer covering (the edges of the silk being fastened, so as not to project above the outer surface of the card-board) is pushed up through the aperture. On the raised body may be printed the appropriate motto desired, or the name of a business firm or other matter, just as desired.

It will be readily seen that the apertures cut through the card-board may be of any design, or the ornamentation may be of I a circular, curved, or rectangular shape, and either narrow or wide. Any colored material made of silk, satin, or velvet may be employed, as the taste suggests.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

As a new article of manufacture, card-board, when used for wedding invitations, circulars, orders of dance, Christmas, birthday, and Easter cards, &c., having satin, silk, plush, or velvet, ruffled, shirred, or plain, raised by artificial means to the surface of said cardboard through apertures of any desired shape or form cut in said card-board, substantially as described, and for the purpose specified.

Witness my hand this 30th day of October,

. CHAS. S. PLUMMER. Witnesses:

FRANK O. EvANs, J AMES M. HUNT.

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